Kimball Graphic in Kimball, South Dakota

Vast array of oddities and elections across 19th century pages

The text surveys family lore in Roscoff with a 94 year old matriarch and a newborn descendant, then swings to public curiosities from Philadelphia celluloid accidents to storehouse misadventures, a Danilsonville barn auction, a Knoxville death, and a Hudson River train fright. It also covers Anglo South American politics, Sydney car fortunes, shipboard iceberg, Irish car obsessions, Togus nurse cases, and a long wave of 1884 to 1889 election results across New York, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Dakota admissions with proclamations and jubilant scenes in Bismarck and Washington.